200px, ''Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni ''by Francesco Trevisani. The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham">Barnard_Castle.html" ;"title="Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle">Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. Francesco Trevisani (April 9, 1656 – July 30, 1746) was an Italians, Italian painter, active in the period called either early Rococo or late Baroque (''barochetto'').

Life

Born in Capodistria,

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(modern

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now in Slovenia, then part of the

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), he was the son of Antonio Trevisani, an architect, by whom he was instructed in the first rudiments of design. He then studied in

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under

Antonio Zanchi Antonio Zanchi (; 6 December 1631 – 12 April 1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in Venice, but his prolific works can also be seen in Padova, Treviso, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza, Loreto, Brescia, Milano, and Bergamo, a ...

. He moved to

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, where he remained until his death, in 1746. His brother, Angelo Trevisani remained a prominent painter in Venice. Francesco Trevisani - Apollo and Daphne - WGA23056

Francesco Trevisani - Apollo and Daphne - WGA23056

In Rome, he was supported by Cardinal

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. He was strongly influenced by

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (18 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian Baroque painter and Drawing, draughtsman, active principallly in Rome where he was the leading painter in the second half of the 17th century. He was a fresco and canvas painte ...

, as is manifest in his masterpiece, the frescoes in

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(1695–1696). In this commission, he worked alongside

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and Ludovico Gimignani. In Rome, he was favoured with the patronage of Cardinal Chigi. Chigi employed him in several considerable works, and recommended him to the protection of

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, who not only commissioned him to paint one of the prophets in San Giovanni Laterano, but engaged him to decorate the cupola of the cathedral in

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. There he represented, in fresco, allegories of the four Quarters of the World, in which he displayed much invention and ingenuity. He was employed by the Duke of

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, in copying the works of

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and

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, ...

, and also painted in Brunswick,

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, Munich, Stockholm, and

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. He also shows Maratta's influence in the cartoons for the baptismal chapel in

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, in the oval with ''Prophet Baruch'' in

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, and in the ''Death of St. Joseph'' in

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. Trevisani painted scenes from the ''Life of the Blessed Lucy of Narni'' in the church of

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(1714–15). He also painted the huge canvas for the main altar of the Basilica of the

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. He became a member of the Academy of Arcadia in 1712. Among his pupils were Francesco Civalli of Perugia, Cav. Lodovico Mazzanti, and Giovanni Batista Bruglii. Trevisani died in Rome in 1746.

Works

*''Martyrdom of St Andrew'', Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Rome *''Stigmata of St Francis'',

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, Rome *Frescos at Santa Chiara (St. Clare) chapel,

, Rome *''Prophet Baruch'',

, Rome *Altar of the ''Ecstasy of Saint Francis'' at the Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco (Holy Stigmata of St. Francis) *''Suicide of Lucretia'' (between 1680 and 1740) *''Banquet of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony'' (1702), Palazzo Spada, Rome *''Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni'',

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, Durham, England *''The Raising of Lazarus'' *''Saint Mark'' *''Saint Matthew'' *''Madonna and Child'' *''Peter Baptizing the Centurion Cornelius'' (1709) *''Death of Alexander the Great'', Musée des beaux-arts de Pau, France *''Maria Clementina'' (1719) *''Apelles Painting

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'' (1720) *''Apollo and Daphne'' (mid-18th century) *''Diana and Endymion'' *''Latona and the Frogs'' *''Penitent Magdalene'' (1725)

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, Madrid. *''Madonna with Child'' (1708-1710) Prado Museum. Madrid. *Madonna with sleeping Child (att)

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, Madrid. *Works at

Palazzo Corsini, Rome The Palazzo Corsini is a prominent late-baroque palace in Rome, erected for the Corsini family between 1730 and 1740 as an elaboration of the prior building on the site, a 15th-century villa of the Riario family, based on designs of Ferdinando F ...

: **''Martyrdom of St Lawrence'' **''Martyrdom of St Lucia'' **''Mary Magdalene'' In January 2021 an episode of the

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series '' Britain's Lost Masterpieces'', centred on the fine art collection of the

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in Brighton, uncovered a work of Trevisani, a portrayal of

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, previously attributed to an unknown artist.

Etchings and Drawings

*''Andrea Adami da Bolsa''

References

* *''Review of Francesco Trevisani: Eighteenth-Century Painter in Rome''. Francis H. Dowley. The Art Bulletin (1979) pp. 146–151. *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trevisani, Francesco 1656 births 1746 deaths People from Koper 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Istrian Italian people 18th-century Italian male artists

Life

Works

Etchings and Drawings

References

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